BC New Democrats scrambling to contain an imploding leadership race are lashing out at the BC Greens, accusing the party of participating in a “hostile takeover” to take control of the NDP and the premier’s office.
It’s an interesting strategy. But it masks the real issue: The BC NDP’s problems are internal, and the mess is entirely of its own making.
But leadership races are all about signing up reams of new members. Outsider candidate Anjali Appadurai has apparently done just that, with the help of environmental groups like the Dogwood Initiative. Her campaign has refused to provide an exact total, but some New Democrats believe it’s two times the sign-ups of her rival David Eby, and could reach as high as 10,000 new members.
The Greens, I gather, briefly considered just sending back a copy of the Confidence and Supply Agreement the two sides signed after the 2017 election, which Horgan ripped up and reneged on with his snap election call in 2020. The Greens were not interested in spending party resources and time helping the NDP get out of its mess. Instead, they crafted a short response to the NDP letter that said, essentially: Pound sand.“If a significant portion of the BC Green membership is attempting a hostile takeover of the BC NDP, this does not reflect well on the BC Green Party and we would wonder whether it puts its status as a registered political party in jeopardy,” wrote NDP executive director Heather Stoutenberg.
There’s an alternate universe out there somewhere where a robust 40,000-member BC NDP laughed at a few thousand BC Greens signing up to support Appadurai, took their wasted membership fees , aggressively tried to convince many of those members to stay, and then used the cash to screw over the weakened Greens in the next election campaign.
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